In a move that may be the biggest code break since Alan Turing and his team broke the codes of the WWII Enigma machine, a team of Russian coders claim to have cracked Pro Tools error codes.

Long thought indecipherable by even the most seasoned Pro Tools users, error codes have been a part of the Pro Tools user experience for decades. However, the Russian team claim they know how Pro Tools error codes work and will have a working code breaker within months, which they say will enable any Pro Tools user to understand them.

The team say the software works using cryptoanalysis, which they concluded had to be the way to figure out Pro Tools error codes which they say must be based on a three-stage process. First identifying the system used, second breaking the system to identify how encryption takes place and finally solving the code. Vlad, who wouldn't give his full name for security reasons, said; "It is highly likely that there is a machine used that takes any error message and encrypts it before it is added to the Pro Tools codebase to ensure no one can understand what the message means without knowing the code."

It's a bold claim to suggest that rather than be presented with a code such as AAE-6101 or -6093 a Pro Tools user will be presented with a plain English explanation of the issue, but the coders say that after 7 years work they've cracked it.

We put them to the test to prove they really do have a codebreaker powerful enough to decipher a Pro Tools error code so they offered a Skype screen share for us to see it working real-time. First, they showed us Pro Tools throw up an error code as normal which was about as helpful as a chocolate fireguard. The one we got was a 6086 error. Then the coders added their codebreaker layer and created the situation again, this time the message was "Your RAM is screwed, pop the lid on your computer and try reseating them... if that does not work then buy some proper RAM."

We asked them to run a second example, this time the error code Pro Tools gave was a 9073 error. With the new software, it said "Your hard drive is fragmented and could be about to die... back your stuff up fast."

Once the coders have completed this project they plan to implement a hack that removes the word ‘unexpected’ from any crash message.